S.I. No. 321/1948 - Milk and Dairies (Infectious Diseases) Order, 1948.

S.I. No. 321 of 1948.

MILK AND DAIRIES (INFECTIOUS DISEASES) ORDER, 1948.

WHEREAS the Minister for Health (hereinafter called " the Minister ") is of opinion that each of the diseases specified in the Schedule hereto is a disease which is likely to be caused by infected or contaminated milk :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of section 40 of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 , with the concurrence of the Minister for Agriculture, hereby declares and orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Milk and Dairies (Infectious Diseases) Order, 1948.

2. Each of the diseases specified in the Schedule hereto shall be a disease to which Part V of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 , applies.

SCHEDULE.

(a) Food-poisoning caused by organisms of the Salmonella Group.

(b) Bacillary dysentery.

(c) Streptococcal sore throat.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twentieth day of September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Agriculture hereby concurs with the foregoing Order.

(Signed) JAMES M. DILLON,

Minister for Agriculture.